If you cannot say something, you cannot know it
...oncept is expressed in terms of verbal relations with other concepts and with its own "real world" examples (attribute, cause-effect, etc. relations, categorization An example will help. Take the knowing of the concept known as “Dog”. Our knowing immediately categorizes that concept into “pet”, or “wild animal” “Doberman”, “Golden Retriever”, thus categorization. Our knowing immediately attributes to that concept, “loving”, loyal”,” means of security”, “playmate” Our knowing immediately thinks of “chasing-cats” associated with that concept, thus arriving at cause-effect. Now each of the categorization, attribution, associations are all once again concepts. Thus the knowing of a concept “dog” is really knowing it’s relationship with other concepts, to form a composite picture, image of the first concept, stored in the mnemonic cells as memory. Now reverting back to saying or verbalization, what else is saying but conceptualizing via the medium of uttered sounds. Ergo, you cannot know, in the absence of conceptualization. And you cannot speak, in the absence of conceptualization. And thus in reverse logic, if you cannot say something about it, you cannot know anything about it. Let’s look at statement from another angle. To know something, there has to be a cognition of the need to know whatever that “something”. Otherwise, the very problem does not exist. A flying bird in the sky, has no need to know how to swim in the waters, because the very concept of “swimming” (with it’s associated relational concepts) does not exist for the flying bird. A problem or an issue has to exist, for the need to find a solution, an explanation for it, for that need to exist. The very existence of the problem or an issue, needs it to be named, needs it to be represented. Naming and representation, is back into the world of concepts which are used to name, which are used to represent. Thus, a problem, an issue and thus the associated need to know about it, both cannot exist, unless the problem and the need to know about the problem can be conceptualized. Knowing of somethi...